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I liked this book. It is a sad book, but nevertheless very readable. The descriptions of the environment, the war, things that happen, the relationships between the various characters: I just enjoyed it. ( )

Great story, incredible imagery and absolutely horrible dialogue. The short, choppy sentences with constantly repeated words made the characters all sound like they had a third-grade education. I'm sure there was some deep literary technique here that I just missed, but it really hurt the book. It was saved only by the storyline. ( )

In its sustained, inexorable movement, its throbbing preoccupation with flesh and blood and nerves rather than the fanciful fabrics of intellect, it fulfills the prophecies that his most excited admirers have made about Ernest Hemingway... in its depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance.